Cigar lighter



Dec. 10, 1929. J. M. REDINGER CIGAR LIGHTER Filed April 9. 1928 Ecii.

/ l/l 22%QZI Patented Dec. 10, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH M. REDINGER, OF IPROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND CIGAR LIGHTER Application filed April 9, 1928. Serial No. 268,757.

This invention relates to certain new and sleeve 9 and hold the wick snufier in its inuseful improvements in cigar lighters, and operative position. Upon restoring the wick the primary object thereof is to provide a snufi'er to its operative position, it Will be cigar lighter which has novel means for bold seen that the plunger 19 will engage the flat ing the wick cap or snufier in closed position. face 18 of the sleeve 9 and will thereby latch in the drawin s: the snuffer 1n JOSltlOIl 1n order to revent e L p l igure 1 1s a side elevation; accidental exposure oi the wick. Fi 'ure 2 is a reverse side elevation iartl llavm thus described in invention what he b y broken away and in section, and I claim as new and des1re to secure by Letters 1 Figure 3 1s a section on line 33 of Fig. 1. Patent 18 In proceeding in accordance with the pres- 1. in a cigar lighter, a casing, awickcarried entinvention, a case 1 is employed having the by the casing, a spring tensioned flint rod, a usual plug or closure 2 at its bottom to enable tubular member secured to the casing and the case to be filled with liquid fuel. A tube having a bearing at its upper end, a spring 15 3 is secured at its ends to the top and bottom pressed plunger in the tubular member, a 05 oi the case and receives the flint rod t therespindle having a head which abuts a side in, the latter being tensioned by a coil spring of the bearing, a sparking wheel rigidly se- 5 which bears against a screw 6. The screw Cured to the spindle, a sleeve mounted on the 6 is threaded in the bottom end of the tube 3 spindle and abutting the head thereof and dis 20 and enables adjustment of the tension of the posed in said bearing, a guard on the sleeve spring, as is obvious. A sparking heel (5 surrounding said wheel and abutting the opis mounted on a stub shaft 7. The stub shaft posits side of the bearing, said sleeve having 7has a knurled head 8. Asleeve 9 is mounted a flat face to engage the plunger, a snuifer on the shaft 7 and at one end abuts the head for the wick connected to said sleeve, and a 25 8 while its opposite end portion is formed with handle extending outwardly from the snuffer.

a curved guard 10 which partly surrounds the 2. In a cigar lighter, a casing, a wick carsparking wheel, the latter abutting against a med by the casing, a spring tensioned flint shoulder 12 at the inner side of the guard 10. rod, a tubular member secured to the casing The sleeve9is mounted inabearing 13 which and having a bearing at its upper end, a on latter engages the inner side of the head 8 sprin pressed plunger in the tubular memso and the inner side of the guard 10, Th her, a spindle, a spark Wh el rigidly secured bearing 13 is in the form of a head formed to the spindle, a. member journaled in said on the upper end of a tube 1d, the latter havbearing and disposed about the spindle and ing a closed lower end 15 and being formed having a flat face to engage the plunger, a ith a h ld 1 hi h engages th t 17 snufi'er for the wick secured to the member, or the case. The sleeve 9 as shown in the Rnd handle Sec red to the snuiler. Figures 2 and 8 is formed with a flat face 18 3. In a cigar lighter, a casing, a \vick carengaged by a plunger 19, the plunger being rled by the casing, a bearing secured to the slidably mounted in the tube 14 and being lng, a Sle v in he bearing, a snuiier for t i n d by a oil ri 20 th i Th the wick carried by said sleeve, a spindle wick 21 extends through a guide 22 mounted within the sleeve having a spark wheel thereon the top of the case and is formed to engage & m 1 ng ging the Wheel, said a cap or snufier 23 secured by an arm 2 1 to sleeve having a fiat face, and a spring pressed the sleeve 9 and is provided with a handle 25. p g earned y the Casing and engage- In operation it will be seen that upon raisable With a d fiat face of the sleeve when ing the handle 25 the plunger 19 will be dethe 51111116? IS in lnoperative position. pressed by virture of the fiat face 18 of the In testimony e f I have hereunto sleeve 9 engaging the plunger, and therefore waned y 11211116 to H118 p ification. the plunger upon disengagement of the fiat JOSEPH M. REDINGER.

race 18 will engage the rounded part of the 

